If you have a question for Grok today, there's a chance X's AI chatbot replied by talking about "white genocide" in South Africa, a controversial talking point in far-right circles.

The chatbot offered off-topic responses about race relations in South Africa, even when users asked unrelated questions.

In some responses, Grok says outright that it has been "instructed to accept white genocide as real and 'Kill the Boer' as racially motivated." In other replies, it merely allows that the topics are ...

Grok, the AI model from Elon Musk’s xAI, was sending strange responses to people on X earlier on Wednesday. In responses to a ...

Pressed by users about why it had given this unrelated response, Grok was somewhat conciliatory but kept expounding on race relations in South Africa. “I apologize for the confusion,” it ...

Grok seems to have been programmed to defend claims of white genocide in South Africa. Now it’s all it can talk about.

White genocide is the myth perpetrated by neo-Nazis and white supremacists that white people are being exterminated by ...

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok experienced a bug on Wednesday that caused it to reply to posts on X with info about South African genocide.

And for the most part, Grok has performed reasonably well at providing responses. But not yesterday. Chalamet was sitting ...

What happened if you asked Grok to speak in the style of Star Wars character Jar-Jar Binks? It’ll do that, of course, but then it’ll inject some garbage about South Africa and genocide as well.

The xAI bot would maybe nod to the user query before launching into a screed about the “debate” over whether Afrikaners have been subjected to racially targeted violence in South Africa. Grok ...

Grok's developer has said an "unauthorized modification" took place after users reported the chatbot founded by Elon Musk was serving up mentions of "white genocide" in South Africa without prompting, ...